Orchestra adds new music to 'Frankenstein' film

3:05 PM,
Oct. 18, 2013

Written by

Carlton Wilkinson

The classic 1931 film "Frankenstein" is famous for any number of good reasons, including the eminently quotable scene when the doctor, nearly delirious with joy and fatigue, observes his creature, made from parts of various dead people, move for the first time.

"It's alive! It's alive!" he yells, to the horror of his fiancée and other visitors. "In the name of God! Now, I know what it feels like to be God!"

Now it's the music that's alive. Echoing the film's plot, a live orchestra will perform a new score to the old film - a living, breathing, new creation made from the dusty film coffins of history. ...